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The bachelor's nightmare has arrived:
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...the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office has seized four computer hard drives from a Lancaster newspaper...

something awful's mspaints of college life are pretty funny


this is pretty cool

Have you noticed that the legal battles between science and creationism are often centered on small towns and school districts? That's no accident. It's the circuit creationists prefer to work.

Like the rainmakers and healers that came before them, the creationists arrive in town wrapped in the Bible and put on a dazzling show...

[and so on] /kos

So that thing yesterday was a piece about how the country we are today is far different from the country we were in 1941, that the current military action against certain elements in Iraq, (whether you call it a war or not) is the spitting image of Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of Russia, down to the shock and awe. The russians quickly realized that the invading forces were the only guys on the planet that were even meaner than their own government, so they barred the doors and ate their zoos and starved rather than give in. During this episode, the shut-in Shostakovich wrote Leningrad symphony, the second movement of which conveys better than any other piece of music the flavor of ostrich meat.

Why we're fighting this war is a crying shame, an excuseless pack of lies that is killing good people for no reason and ruining our country's economy, which is going to get people with a "W '04" bumper sticker punched in the face by me, once the asian banks supporting our sorry, war-mongering asses realize their mistake and in a puff of dust, the dollar is worthless and all those frenchies come over here and buy everything for pennies. Seriously, knuckle sandwiches, motherfuckers. Fair warning.

The country we were in 1941 was a tolerant place. People had different religions, "under god" wasn't in the pledge of allegiance yet, and we somehow saved the world from tyranny in a way unlikely to ever be repeated.

There were pro-war films made, called "why we fight", and it boiled down to that the nazis loved war, and if somebody's kicking your ass, you have to fight them to make them stop. Ask anyone who's been to prison.

Now it's we who love war. The rest of the world, strangely, could be watching our why we fight videos and putting together a pretty good case for our destruction. Thing is, it looks like (economically) we're trying to beat them to it. Iraqis, a people reverting to their pre-WW1 factionry in what promises to be a doozie of a civil war, are waiting for us to run out of money blowing up random piles of sand. And we oblige.

Yes, yesterday's was better.

posted by dale @ 7:34 AM